"I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming."
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"Please everyone without becoming a hypocrite or a coward."
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"You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master."
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"The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer."
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"Extreme sports tricks are becoming increasingly complex, the courses ever more challenging and crashes all too common."
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"It's not about the goal. It's about becoming the type of person that can accomplish the goal."
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"Nothing ever is, everything is becoming."
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"We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future."
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"One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible."
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"History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business."
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"Maybe we can change some kid's life & stop him from becoming a welder or a sleazy lawyer."
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"But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man."
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"Everything is perpetually becoming new."
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"I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before."
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"Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming."
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""The Jews should not be allowed to keep what they have obtained from others by usury; it were best that they were compelled to worked so that they could earn their living instead of doing nothing but becoming avaricious.""
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"Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this: "You're either on the bus...or off the bus."
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"The constructive schizoid person stands against the spiritual emptiness of encroaching technology and does not let himself be emptied by it. He lives and works with the machine without becoming a machine. He finds it necessary to remain detached enough to get meaning from the experience, but in doing so, to protect his own inner life from impoverishment."
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"People need to start becoming more aware of what's going on and doing something to fix it."
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"What you're thinking is what you're becoming."
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